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Beijing says its Tiangong modular space station will take shape in low Earth orbit starting from 2020, and China is eager to welcome foreign astronauts aboard the 66-ton facility – roughly the size of the decommissioned Russian Mir. The Tiangong is poised to be the only manned space station in orbit after the International Space Station (ISS) […]